# Great fantasy team nicknames

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [October 30, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300 "2008-10-30T19:30:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Tazmanian\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Tazmanian\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tazmanian_Devil)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2008, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/21 "2008-11-03T12:35:13Z")

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Took over an abandoned hockey team in 2000, and renamed them the Tallahassee Recounters.

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### Author: ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2008, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/22 "2008-11-03T18:00:21Z")

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> [@glee](#):
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> A team called ‘Bruce, Bruce, Bruce and Bruce’ once came 2nd in the British Speed team chess. I know, for I was in it! 🙂

But… your name is **glee**. That might cause confusion! :dubious:

**Dosipede** , Hoosier Daddies is quite simply _awesome_.

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### Author: ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/23 "2008-11-03T20:33:03Z")

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I named my fantasy football team after a comment a sportscaster made about Mike Nugent in the preseason. They said he had “flashes of consistency,” and I laughed for about five minutes.

That’s my team name now.

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### Author: ![Dosipede](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dosipede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dosipede)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/24 "2008-11-03T21:11:30Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> **Dosipede** , Hoosier Daddies is quite simply _awesome_.

Indeed. Just a disclaimer, none of those are mine, just ones I like. The best I’ve come up with is Alan Autry’s Nose.

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### Author: ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-fantasy-team-nicknames/470300/25 "2008-11-03T21:24:05Z")

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One of the participants in my FF league is the “Obamalama Dingdongs”.

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